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Standards

Design guide offers details on rain loads and ponding on roofs

The American Institute of Steel Construction and the Steel Joist Institute recently released a comprehensive roof design guide addressing rain loads and ponding. Design Guide 40, Rain Loads and Ponding provides guidance for designing roof systems to avoid or resist water accumulation and any resulting instability.

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Contractors

Bringing the concepts of architects, engineers, and clients to life often requires problem-solving and compromise, and always requires hard work on the contractor’s part. Keeping construction within the allotted budget and up to the rest of the building team’s standards requires a combination of extensive technical and product knowledge.

Contractors | Rider Levett Bucknall | Apr 30, 2018

Following—and forecasting—the money: Financial modeling for project managers

To wait until there’s a problem affecting design and construction before consulting with a PM wastes valuable time when a project is at its most vulnerable point.

Contractors | Apr 26, 2018

At Boston University’s dental school, ‘under construction’ won’t mean ‘closed for business’

A major renovation and addition are scheduled to minimize operational disruption.

Contractors | Apr 20, 2018

Construction employment rises in 38 states and D.C. from March 2017 to March 2018

California and West Virginia have biggest job gains for the year, North Dakota has largest decline; Texas and Alaska have largest monthly pickup, New York and Hawaii have largest monthly drops. 

Contractors | Apr 13, 2018

Clayco to open new office in Greenville, South Carolina

The office will be located in the One building at 2 West Washington Street.

Contractors | Apr 9, 2018

Tech Report 5.0: Smart(er) Jobsites

Real-time construction analysis, just-in-time materials delivery, digital production planning systems—these are just a few of the novel approaches construction firms are implementing to take control of their jobsites.

Market Data | Apr 2, 2018

Construction spending in February inches up from January

Association officials urge federal, state and local officials to work quickly to put recently enacted funding increases to work to improve aging and over-burdened infrastructure, offset public-sector spending drops.

Contractors | Mar 9, 2018

Undoing 5 myths of IPD and Lean construction

The Lean Construction Institute, one of this year’s Movers+Shapers, has been sponsoring valuable research recently.

Contractors | Mar 6, 2018

Skender revolutionizes how the industry builds, integrates design, construction, and manufacturing

Envisioning a radically more efficient future for the building industry, Skender announces its expansion beyond construction, becoming a vertically integrated company including construction, design and building component manufacturing functions. The expansion includes significant investment in the launch of a new Chicago-based advanced manufacturing subsidiary and the acquisition of the boutique design firm Ingenious Architecture. 

Multifamily Housing | Mar 4, 2018

Katerra, a tech-driven GC, plots ambitious expansion

Investors flock to this vertically integrated startup, which automates its design and construction processes.

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